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Game companies respond swiftly to ban well-known game designer after serious allegations
RAINN to receive donations from games company after allegations of violence and abuse made against a designer.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #1
Friday’s are a good day for a recap of the news of the week. In Mr Root, we’ll take a look at news from Geek Native and around the web.
200 board games clustered by type look like an alien invasion fleet
In this chart, the critical thing is how close two dots are together; that means they are two similar board games.
Angry geeks manipulate Barrage’s Board Game Geek rating in protest
Do you support the protest or is the manipulation of the game’s score on Board Game Geek inappropriate?
Cosmic pizza battles: Solar Slice
This is a board game in which the controllers of Earth – pizza delivery companies – discover alien life and battle to control the franchise rights. [Back this Campaign] Pledges for Solar Slice go $1, $2 and then $45. The jump goes from expressing an interest, getting digital assets to re-create your own version of […]
Rio Grande lose or give up on Carcassonne
Hans im Glück is the German publisher who own the very popular board game Carcassonne. Carcassonne is also available as a computer game via Xbox Live – which goes some way to show just how global it has become. Up until this month Rio Grande Games had the rights to publish the English version of […]